Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

Nature always levies her tribute.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

it takes the very wisest person there is to know when to talk, and when to keep still.